After returning from the supermarket to the park lawn, the picnic could finally begin in earnest.
Every group had plenty of supplies, and the Production Team stopped interfering, finally giving the guests the freedom to do as they pleased.
Each group laid out its picnic blanket and arranged the food from its basket, making it look like a proper picnic.
"You know, it's pretty comfortable here." Enjoying the breeze and her dessert, Lai Bingxuan closed her eyes in contentment.
Liu Woxing arranged the fruit beautifully on a plate, then took a photo. "Now it's starting to feel like a vacation."
Xu Shuangrong took out the kite she had just snagged. "Mr. Shen, would you like to fly a kite?"
The afternoon breeze brushed past as the attractive men and women chatted and laughed over their picnics on the lawn, creating a lovely, harmonious scene.
Except for one group with an industrial aesthetic.
Xie Mi and Qiu Chengye sat on their plastic sheeting, a mountain of food piled between them, shoveling it into their mouths.
They were supposedly here for a picnic, but it looked more like they had come for an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Qiu Chengye knew the Production Team's tricks all too well. Without realizing it, he had developed the habit of eating as much as possible whenever he could, because there was no telling when he might suddenly go without.
Xie Mi was just greedy for food.
Somehow, though, a third person had entered their two-person story.
Xu Shuangrong had barely finished asking whether he wanted to fly a kite when she turned around and found that her partner had already vanished.
At some point, he had wandered over to the construction site.
"I'm so bored. Let's eat your food together." Shen Yeqing had somehow seated himself between them,